Indian Social Workers - Jayaprakash Narayan, Vidyaben Shah, Ranjit Naik, Baba Amte, Gopabandhu Das, Kisan Mehta, Krishnammal Jagannathan (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Jayaprakash Narayan, Vidyaben Shah, Ranjit Naik, Baba Amte, Gopabandhu Das, Kisan Mehta, Krishnammal Jagannathan, K. V. Rabiya, Amit Jethwa, Aroti Dutt, Saroj Nalini Dutt, Deep Joshi, Mira Datta Gupta, Sarojini Varadappan, Pratibha Naitthani, Giridharilal Kedia, Medha Patkar, Anu Aga, Ganga Sharan Singh, Laxmi Chand Tyagi, Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky, Sindhutai Sapkal, Madhusudan Das, Narayanan Krishnan, Prabhakar Christopher Benjamin Balaram, Suman Muthe, Yusuf Matcheswalla, Sister Nirmala, Hamid Dalwai, Roohi Zuberi, M. B. Nirmal, Purnima Mane, Thakkar Bapa, Madhav Chavan, Annie Namala, Anoop Kumar, K. P. Karunakara Menon, Poornima Arvind Pakvasa, Farah Naqvi, Punnala Sreekumar. Excerpt: Bharat Ratna Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (Devan gar: October 11, 1902 - October 8, 1979), widely known as JP or Loknayak (leader of the masses), was an Indian independence activist and political leader, remembered especially for leading the opposition to Indira Gandhi in the 1970s and for giving a call for peaceful Total Revolution. His biography, Jayaprakash, was written by his nationalist friend and an eminent writer of Hindi literature, Ramavriksha Benipuri. In 1998, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in recognition of his social work. Other awards include the Magsaysay award for Public Service in 1965. The airport of Patna is also named after him. Jayprakash Narayan was born in Sitabdiara village of Saran in Bihar. When he was a child, he had many pets. One day, his pigeon died and he did not eat food for two days afterward. His father Harsudayal was a junior official in the canal department of the State government and was often touring the region. Jayaprakash, called Baul affectionately, was left with his grandmother to study in Sitabdiara. There was no high...